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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Starting this year, many Americans may be surprised to find that their local Walgreens or Duane Reade is no longer in their insu..
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Most people who wear contact lenses don't clean them properly. In fact, a recent survey found that some people admit to using le..
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
A placebo can take the form of a sugar pill or even a fake surgery. It's often used to test the effectiveness of a trial drug. T..
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Friday, January 6, 2012
More than 90 percent of patients in one survey said they'd want to know what doctors write in their charts. The majority of doct..
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Two-thirds of Americans are overweight. And when many of them try to take off the extra pounds, their bodies fight to stay fat. ..
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
In the 1970s, a sizable number of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam self-identified as heroin addicts. But when they returned stateside..
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
From the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant to the end of NASA"s shuttle program, a great deal of science stories mad..
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Monday, December 26, 2011
"Singing therapy" is one treatment researchers are using to help brain trauma patients gain the ability to speak again...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
For 65 years, thousands of people have let themselves be weighed, measured, and tested. The result: The world's longest running ..
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Forty years ago, President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, beginning the War on Cancer. Harold Varmus, director of the Nat..
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly one percent of U.S. children have some form of autism, 20 times higher than..
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
About half of African-American women in the U.S. are obese, compared to 30 percent of white women. Black women not only carry mo..
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Friday, December 16, 2011
More and more hospitals and clinics now offer music therapy as a supplementary treatment for everything from anxiety to Alzheime..
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Donald Berwick resigned as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in December. Berwick explains why he ..
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Monday, December 12, 2011
It's not unusual for awful traffic conditions or incompetent driving to make some people really angry behind the wheel. But rese..
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